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KD 600 .G5 1554

Creation Date

1554

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Glanvill, Ranulf de. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie. Londini: in aedibus Richardi Totteli, 1554.

According to tradition, Ranulf de Glanvill (1120s?-1190) wrote Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie (Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England), though modern scholarship finds it highly unlikely Glanvill himself authored the work. The composition of the treatise, which was the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the common law, dates to between 1187 and 1189. This edition by Richard Tottell in 1554 was the first printed edition of Glanvill, long after it had fallen into desuetude as a source for law training, superseded by Bracton, the Year Books, Littleton, and other more recent works.

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